HOWEVER! I am impressed that the hyperbolic author actually used the correct term for the ammunition magazine. This has to be one of the first times I’ve heard an anti-gun reporter not say “clip” when referring to a magazine. This reporter would be shocked to find the cache of sunken weapons all over the nation.
For those of you from Rio Linda:
A bullet is to a cartridge as flour is to bread or as cement is to concrete, etc. Multiple cartridges are known as ammunition. Multiple bullets are known as lots of bullets.
Cartridges are an assembly that consists of a shellcase, propellant powder, primer and bullet. Bullets are those little thingies that are expelled from a firearm and travel down range until they reach a target or the ground.
Indeed, those of us who are members of the Coast Guard Auxiliary and Power Squadrons must redouble our boating safety efforts to prevent and more such Tragic Boating accidents, especially when they involve firearms. We FReepers seem particularly prone to suffering such horrible tragedies while transporting “military grade assault weapons.”